Traverse Theatre Company Òran Mór

A PLAY, A PIE & A PINT

Following the huge success of our previous collaboration, the Traverse is delighted to once again team up with Glasgow’s Óran Mòr to present the acclaimed lunchtime theatre programme, A Play, A Pie and A Pint.

For £10 you get the perfect lunchtime experience – a short play, a pie and a drink (the pint is optional!) The season will feature five new plays by some of the country’s most talented writers: Simon Stephens, Graham Eatough & Maggie Rose, Ella Hickson, Gregory Burke and Zinnie Harris. Bon appetit!

Website http://playpiepint.com/

Full Edinburgh Schedule:

Heaven
by Simon Stephens, directed by Dominic Hill

2 – 6 March (1pm)

Heaven is about a chance encounter in an airport departure lounge. A young man, heading for Turin, is stopped in his tracks by an elderly man. Is it divine intervention or does it come too late? What is the young man running from?

The Shattered Head
by Graham Eatough and Maggie Rose

9 – 13 March (1pm)

Inspired by the life and work of Edinburgh born artist Eduardo Paolozzi, The Shattered Head, explores his groundbreaking artwork and the radical ideas that influenced it, as well as his personal battles with illness towards the end of his life.

Soup
by Ella Hickson, directed by Natalie Ibu

16 - 20 March (1pm)

Ella’s first play for the A Play, A Pie and A Pint programme, Soup, is an absorbing story about the return of a young man to his comfortable Morningside home and the confusion his presence brings to his insecure film-critic father.

Battery Farm
by Gregory Burke, directed by David MacLennan

23 – 27 March (1pm)

Gregory’s new short play, Battery Farm, is a comedy about the future of care for the elderly and infirm, and those who have to look after them, in a society running out of time, space and resources.

The Garden
Written and directed by Zinnie Harris

30 March – 3 April (1pm)

Zinnie’s short play The Garden premiered at the Traverse breakfast series as a rehearsed reading during the 2009 Festival Fringe. This full production is set in a dystopian future on the brink of climate collapse, and tells the story of a loving couple stranded in a residential block of a research facility.